Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Complaint against companies Gestin by digital canon to the Attorney Anticorrupcin

Three organizations have presented this morning a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for possible criminal fraud to the Treasury, forgery and misappropriation against different societies copyright. The Internet Users Association, the Association of Internet and the Spanish Association of Small and Medium Business Informatics and New Technologies (APEMIT) are directed against the boards of these institutions and officials "who have endorsed or covert previous practices pertaining to the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Culture.

Entities are reported SGAE, Cedar, Egeda and IEA. According to plaintiff attorney Joseph Jover, the initiative comes from the study of public documentation on the collection for private copying (canon digital) Cite entities that submitted to the Ministry of Culture and the figures published by such organizations in their annual reports.

"We appreciate that there is a difference of 50 million euros that would not have paid to its partners." The lawsuit also is directed against ministry officials for "having published the data have not responded to the difference presented by them." Management companies prepare a statement of response that have not made public at the moment.

Ana Maria Mendez, co-owner of Barcelona Traxtore computer store, which triggered the European ruling against digital canon is one of the applicants before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office because it believes that is the logical consequence of an "unbearable situation. When we saw Cedar suspended the social security fund by the alarm created by the European ruling, we wondered why deprive them of helping its partners if throughout 2010 have continued to raise the fee in full, although the ruling establishment which is indiscriminate? ".

By comparing the documentation and see that "the numbers do not add up," we decided to ask to conduct an audit Anti oara know what exactly the fee collected, how it is allocated and to whom. "

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